Update Tutorials 2011
Update Tutorials 2012
Bluesmith Tutorials
Construction Tolerances
Evaluation Tools
Old Align Videos
Scan Data
Car Design News Webinar
Preparing Mesh Data
Mesh Exercise Files- Car Mesh and Scan Lines (20.8 MB)
- Bonnet 1 (3.45 MB)
- Bonnet 2 (561 KB)
- City Car Mesh (549 KB)
- Lamborgini Mesh (2.68 MB)
- Truck Mesh (0.4 MB)
- VW Up Mesh (12.5 MB)
- Aston Martin Mesh (2 MB)
- Landrover mesh (35.7 MB)
- Spectacles Mesh (271 KB)
- Wenfu_Feng_Car Mesh (271 KB)
Curriculum Tutorials
- The Alias Curriculum is set of Powerpoint lessons and wire files developed in 2012 and offered as a teaching curriculum for universities.
- The .wire files are zipped into a 'Curriculum_user_data' directory and are organised into 12 lesson topics with a number of exercise files in each.
- Lesson Files
Lesson Powerpoints
Resources
Alias Golden Rules
- 1- Single-Span = Smooth Curves/Surfaces
- 2 - NURBS = Four-sided Surfaces
- 3 - Create a Good 'Flow' of CVs
- 4 - Use Minimum Number of CVs
- 5 - Work 'Big' to 'Small'
- 6 - Build to Theoretical edges
- 7 - Set Construction Tolerances at the start
- 8 - Ensure Tangency across a Centre-Line
- 9 - Avoid building from trimmed edges
- 10 - Match curves on opposite sides
Theory Builders
- 1 - NURBS 1 : Introduction
- 2 - NURBS 2 : Terminology
- 3 - Continuity 1 : G0, G1, G2, G3
- 4 - Continuity 2 : Construction Tolerances
- 5 - Evaluation 1 : Curve Curvature
- 6 - Evaluation 2 : Reflection Lines & Iso Angle
- 7 - Evaluation 3 : Surface Curvature
- 8 - Trimming & Curves-on-Surface
- 9 - Circles and Revolves
- 10 - Understanding Class A modeling